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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 30, 2021 0:27:12 GMT -5
I was shocked to find out how long ago the Ramona books were written—says something about her grasp of people that they seemed contemporary to me (at least in the 90s). I just found out she passed away and had the same thought. Like as a kid I had no idea that the early ones were things that had been written when my parents were kids since the stuff happening all seemed very modern and contemporary, especially when compared to other books for children of the same vintage. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 30, 2021 7:40:08 GMT -5
Sometimes I notice on the "here's six people who just died" section on Wikipedia's front page that one of the people is actually a horse, and now I am wondering even more how those six people are chosen and how many horses are editing Wikipedia.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 30, 2021 13:45:34 GMT -5
Sometimes I notice on the "here's six people who just died" section on Wikipedia's front page that one of the people is actually a horse, and now I am wondering even more how those six people are chosen and how many horses are editing Wikipedia. I asked the main editors if any of them were horses and they all said "Nay." |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Mar 30, 2021 22:52:40 GMT -5
I always found G. Gordon Liddy to be a fascinating and complicated character. I remember the Nixon presidency, Watergate, and the arrests and trials that followed, Liddy's refusal to talk, and his unprotesting acceptance of his sentence. He enthusiastically committed a burglary because of his beliefs, and when caught, forthrightly admitted to it, and willingly went to prison for it.
I listened to his radio show a lot when it was on the air. (I also listened to NPR and Art Bell. I'd listen to anybody doing interesting radio.) I didn't always agree with his politics, and often he stacked the bullshit pretty deep, but I found his broadcast entertaining, and his interviewing of people to be insightful. He gave me the impression that he valued (his perception of) personal integrity above all else, both in himself and others, weird as that sounds, and that that was the primary way he judged people. He arrested Timothy Leary for drug charges, for example, but came to respect and become friends with him because he perceived Leary as another person of integrity, admitting his lawbreaking, accepting the consequences of his act, and being willing willing to go to prison for his beliefs.
Like him or hate him, he did interesting radio.
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 9, 2021 6:24:50 GMT -5
Prince Philip is dead. Every racist in the UK gets to move up a notch.
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Post by Boughs of Proley on Apr 9, 2021 7:28:50 GMT -5
Prince Philip is dead. Every racist in the UK gets to move up a notch. Remember when George Harrison died, The Onion ran the ominous headline "Ringo Next"? Come on Farage, this could be your moment! |
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 9, 2021 9:54:55 GMT -5
A few further details: Philip and the Queen were third cousins, they first met when she was 13 and he was 18, and two of his sisters married high-ranking SS officers.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 9, 2021 11:30:28 GMT -5
DMX, at 50. It hadn't been looking good lately, so it's not a big surprise, for a variety of reasons, but still sad.
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Apr 9, 2021 11:34:45 GMT -5
DMX, at 50. It hadn't been looking good lately, so it's not a big surprise, for a variety of reasons, but still sad. I saw reports he had died last night, told my husband, then had to take it back, and now he really is gone. It's definitely sad. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 9, 2021 16:55:07 GMT -5
DMX, at 50. It hadn't been looking good lately, so it's not a big surprise, for a variety of reasons, but still sad. I am unreasonably upset that I didn't see this in time to break the news anywhere with "DMX dead at L". |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 14, 2021 14:00:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Apr 17, 2021 9:38:28 GMT -5
My mother (who is 82 and was born in Canada) is watching Prince Philip's funeral on TV and my dad made a snarky comment and my mom basically threw him out of the TV room. My mom said when she was young, the Queen and Philip came to Canada, and they had the Girl Guides (girl scouts) line up and my mom saw them as they went by. So basically I'm two degrees of separation from the Queen of England, right?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 17, 2021 10:57:53 GMT -5
My mother (who is 82 and was born in Canada) is watching Prince Philip's funeral on TV and my dad made a snarky comment and my mom basically threw him out of the TV room. My mom said when she was young, the Queen and Philip came to Canada, and they had the Girl Guides (girl scouts) line up and my mom saw them as they went by. So basically I'm two degrees of separation from the Queen of England, right? I think that means you're the Duchess of Milton Keynes or something. |
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Post by Boughs of Proley on Apr 17, 2021 11:02:25 GMT -5
My mother (who is 82 and was born in Canada) is watching Prince Philip's funeral on TV and my dad made a snarky comment and my mom basically threw him out of the TV room. My mom said when she was young, the Queen and Philip came to Canada, and they had the Girl Guides (girl scouts) line up and my mom saw them as they went by. So basically I'm two degrees of separation from the Queen of England, right? Six Degrees Of Separation doesn't work as a game with European royalty because they're all about two apart at best. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Apr 17, 2021 12:57:17 GMT -5
Frank Jacobs, brilliant writer / parody lyricist of MAD magazine, 91. Like "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose career he certainly inspired, many of his parodies were better than the originals.
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Post by Dellarigg on Apr 19, 2021 7:14:05 GMT -5
Mike Mitchell, who has little name recognition, but who played the guitar on Louie Louie by The Kingsmen.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 20, 2021 7:20:47 GMT -5
Walter Mondale, former VP of Jimmy Carter and the first presidential candidate I ever heard of in 1st grade, at age 93.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 20, 2021 8:24:05 GMT -5
Walter Mondale, former VP of Jimmy Carter and the first presidential candidate I ever heard of in 1st grade, at age 93.  |
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Post by Celebith on Apr 20, 2021 13:07:45 GMT -5
Jim Steinman, dead at 73Jim Steinman may be the first artist I noticed as a songwriter, when I realized that the only songs I liked by Barry Manilow, Air Supply and a few other were all written by the Meat Loaf guy, who, at the time, I assumed was just Meat Loaf. He hasn't done much lately, but I'm glad he served up so much over the top cheesy goodness.
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Apr 20, 2021 13:28:48 GMT -5
Jim Steinman, dead at 73Jim Steinman may be the first artist I noticed as a songwriter, when I realized that the only songs I liked by Barry Manilow, Air Supply and a few other were all written by the Meat Loaf guy, who, at the time, I assumed was just Meat Loaf. He hasn't done much lately, but I'm glad he served up so much over the top cheesy goodness. This sucks. There is no mistaking a Jim Steinman song. |
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Post by Celebith on Apr 20, 2021 20:37:15 GMT -5
Jim Steinman, dead at 73Jim Steinman may be the first artist I noticed as a songwriter, when I realized that the only songs I liked by Barry Manilow, Air Supply and a few other were all written by the Meat Loaf guy, who, at the time, I assumed was just Meat Loaf. He hasn't done much lately, but I'm glad he served up so much over the top cheesy goodness. This sucks. There is no mistaking a Jim Steinman song. As soon as I heard 'Original Sin' over the credits for The Phantom, I knew it was his, even before they got to the 'soundtrack' section of the credits. Not only was it a nice surprise, it lead me to a girl-group album he produced that was somehow big in Japan, but barely blipped in the 'States. It had the original versions of 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' and a few songs that were on Bat Out Of Hell II. |
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Post by Boughs of Proley on Apr 21, 2021 13:37:35 GMT -5
This sucks. There is no mistaking a Jim Steinman song. As soon as I heard 'Original Sin' over the credits for The Phantom, I knew it was his, even before they got to the 'soundtrack' section of the credits. Not only was it a nice surprise, it lead me to a girl-group album he produced that was somehow big in Japan, but barely blipped in the 'States. It had the original versions of 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' and a few songs that were on Bat Out Of Hell II. Steinman is very much a genre unto himself, some of us would argue. |
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Post by Boughs of Proley on Apr 22, 2021 14:00:21 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 22, 2021 19:48:23 GMT -5
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 23, 2021 9:17:05 GMT -5
Launched Tupac Shakur, played with P-Funk All Stars at Woodstock '99, and co-wrote LL's "Mama Said Knock You Out". Guy definitely left his mark. |
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 28, 2021 11:30:39 GMT -5
Apollo 11 astronaut (the one who stayed and piloted the command module) Michael Collins. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Apr 28, 2021 17:19:55 GMT -5
Apollo 11 astronaut (the one who stayed and piloted the command module) Michael Collins. I've heard of his time alone in the command module during radio silence while orbiting the moon described as "The loneliest experience a human could have" |
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 28, 2021 17:42:16 GMT -5
Apollo 11 astronaut (the one who stayed and piloted the command module) Michael Collins. I have often been sad to think that living memory of going to the Moon will die out within a few years, with no prospect of it ever returning. |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 28, 2021 21:57:41 GMT -5
Apollo 11 astronaut (the one who stayed and piloted the command module) Michael Collins. I have often been sad to think that living memory of going to the Moon will die out within a few years, with no prospect of it ever returning. RIGHT?! Yeah, I know there's not much to DISCOVER there besides rocks and dust now, but what the fuck? We should TOTALLY be visiting it on a regular basis by now! COME ON!! |
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